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POPS"6 Minutes to More Memory!" (psssst mini-nap) Here's how the scientists at the University of Düsseldorf figured it out: First, they asked university students to memorize a list of 30 words. Afterwards, the participants were either allowed to play a video game or to take a nap in a quiet room. The napping times were varied, though. Some students were allowed to take a 50-minute nap, whereas others were took 35-minute and 6-minute naps. When researchers compared the groups, they found that nap takers consistently remembered more words. On average, those who napped for six minutes remembered one word more than the video game players, while people taking the longer naps remembered two words more. The fascinating finding here--and the reasons for how six minutes can be so meaningful--is that most of the memory improvement is linked to changes in the brain that happen right when you start to doze off.
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POPSCompose a trilogy on human identity -Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat is a contemporary visual artist because of the sexual and political content of her videos, Neshat cannot work in Iran, where she was born. The portfolio below includes images from Neshat’s “Women of Allah” series and photographs of scenes from her video-and-sound installations
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POPS1944 Winter In Belgium: Rare Newsreel Video
A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires. Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute. Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it is. The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now. Now I have to call them UAS's, because someone got a Legion of Merit for the name change.Anyway, I call the post H&I Fires because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. Another term of art that might be appropriate is Free Fire Zone. H/T Argghhh!
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POPSMaybe It WAS Over When The Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor Noting the date, Dec. 7, which marks the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Wright instead chose to focus on the thousands of Japanese civilians who died four years later when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. (After church officials turn away reporters, former pastor blasts the media in his sermon) By Manya A. Brachear | Tribune reporter December 8, 2008 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-wright-08-dec08,0,6598372.story Forget the fact that the Obamas listened to this clown. The exigencies of national politics have rescued them from Wright's silliness. What about all the other people who still do? Was it not the Trib's obligation to point out that they are paying close attention to an idiot? You know, for their own good.
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POPSAn Animated Version of the Mahabarata More from the site: "This is not a strictly accurate historical portrayal of events, but a poetic, fantastic interpretation of the original text," says Grant Morrison. "The world of MBX is a place of incredible art and technology. This kingdom of sages, warriors, noble men and women is stronger, faster, fitter and smarter than we are, but still prey to the same emotional foibles that lead us all into disaster."
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POPSArt Comes to Life Watch this Reuters video showing South Korea's the "Alive Gallery" which transforms famous art masterpieces from 2-d images into life-like, 3-d characters. Visitors can now interact with Mona Lisa and Jesus and his disciples at the last supper.
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POPSRobotic Telepresence RoboDynamics is a company that researches and develops advanced telepresence robots. The idea is creating robots which allow people to attend meetings remotely.
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POPS2006 International Snow Sculpture Championships The site has many more pictures from previous years, plus a video (which I couldn't clip) showing how they make the blocks for the sculptors. I don't which is more difficult, snow carving or sand carving. But they can both look magnificent!
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POPSDays with my Father It's more than just a photo essay. It's beautiful and touching. I couldn't clip directly from the site so the source has the link.
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POPSSmall (Car, House) Is Beautiful I think everyone should have at least one tiny house. Might be a good idea for all of us living on the Atlantic and Gulf coast. When you run you need somewhere to go.
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POPSElephants can paint! these animals are truly amazing, and this is a great website to learn about how really incredible they are and how we need to take care of them. StumbleUpon videos has an eight minute video of one of these elephants painting a self portrait that is absolutely heart stopping.
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POPSThe Real Dying Art Walter Schels and Beate Lokotta display photographs of the dead in there own reality museum.
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